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Dirty Jobs

Season 2 2006

  • 2006-01-11T01:00:00Z on Discovery
  • 1h
  • 20h (20 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Reality, Comedy
Host and everyman Mike Rowe gets the grimy scoop on downright nasty occupations.

20 episodes

Season Premiere

2006-01-11T01:00:00Z

2x01 Avian Vomitologist

Season Premiere

2x01 Avian Vomitologist

  • 2006-01-11T01:00:00Z1h

Mike first travels to Colorado to help out at a marble quarry. He then goes to California to collect owl vomit which is sold to school children for research projects. Finally, Mike travels to Texas to palpate cows, a process used to figure out if a cow is pregnant. He also gets a little too familiar with a bull.

2006-01-18T01:00:00Z

2x02 Turkey Farmer

2x02 Turkey Farmer

  • 2006-01-18T01:00:00Z1h

Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant

2006-01-25T01:00:00Z

2x03 Alligator Farmer

2x03 Alligator Farmer

  • 2006-01-25T01:00:00Z1h

Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer

2006-03-08T01:00:00Z

2x04 Mushroom Farmer

2x04 Mushroom Farmer

  • 2006-03-08T01:00:00Z1h

Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry

2006-03-15T01:00:00Z

2x05 Plumber

2x05 Plumber

  • 2006-03-15T01:00:00Z1h

Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)

2006-03-22T01:00:00Z

2x06 Termite Controller

2x06 Termite Controller

  • 2006-03-22T01:00:00Z1h

Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner

2006-06-14T00:00:00Z

2x07 Casino Food Recycler

It's a glitzy Las Vegas premiere as Mike visits the Lance Burton Theater to clean up the pens for Lance's show doves and geese. Mike then gets really dirty by visiting a pig farmer and helping him process and transport yesterday's buffet leftovers to feed the pigs.

2006-06-21T00:00:00Z

2x08 Parade Float Dismantler

Mike first goes to Pennsylvania at a coal processing plant and learns how to make coke, carbonized coal used to make iron which in turn is used to make steel. Mike then goes to Washington to an oyster shucking plant and works alongside a very dirty girl. Finally, Mike goes to Pasadena, CA to dismantle floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade.

2006-06-28T00:00:00Z

2x09 Garbage Pit Technician

Mike first heads off to Las Vegas to work at an old fashioned printing press making lithographs of himself for the official Dirty Jobs poster. Mike then goes to Lincoln, CA and helps make large scale terra cotta building sculpture pieces from recycled terra cotta sewer pipes. Finally, Mike visits a garbage processing plant in San Francisco where food and assorted scraps are passed through a rolling cylinder and "digested" to make a methane gas energy supply.

2006-07-12T00:00:00Z

2x10 Skull Cleaner

2x10 Skull Cleaner

  • 2006-07-12T00:00:00Z1h

Mike first goes to Sacramento, CA to help repair railroad tracks. Mike then heads to Louisiana to learn how to make "boudin" (Cajun sausage). Mike then cuts and fry's pig skins to make "cracklin" (pork rinds). Finally, Mike goes to Oklahoma and joins a skull cleaning business to learn how to clean skulls and bones using beetles and maggots, including a whale carcass.

2006-07-19T00:00:00Z

2x11 Geoduck Farmer

2x11 Geoduck Farmer

  • 2006-07-19T00:00:00Z1h

Mike first heads off to California to help tear down a dam so trout on the endangered species list can spawn. Mike then goes to Pennsylvania to restore a church's pipe organ, a process that takes a total of eight years to complete. Finally, Mike goes to Puget Sound in Washington to harvest geoduck clams, otherwise known as "gooey ducks".

2006-07-25T00:00:00Z

2x12 Fuel Tank Cleaner

2x12 Fuel Tank Cleaner

  • 2006-07-25T00:00:00Z1h

Mike heads to a good old fashioned steel town in Pennsylvania to work at a 75 year old candy store named Wertz Candies making all sorts of candy treats. Mike then goes to California and works as a tire retreader. Finally, Mike goes to McConnell AFB in Kansas to help repair the fuel tanks of a refueling tanker aircraft.

2006-08-09T00:00:00Z

2x13 Coal Miner

2x13 Coal Miner

  • 2006-08-09T00:00:00Z1h

Mike helps a family in New Jersey demolish and recycle parts from 100 year old buildings on an old college campus. Finally, Mike enters the dangerous world of a coal miner in an upstate Pennsylvania coal mine.

2006-08-16T00:00:00Z

2x14 Hoof Cleaner

2x14 Hoof Cleaner

  • 2006-08-16T00:00:00Z1h

Mike Rowe first joins a crew at a rock quarry in Washington and learns what it takes to make gravel from loading rocks to blowing up a side of a mountain. Next, Mike gets hip deep in mud and muck working with the hippo keepers at the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ. Finally, Mike helps a crew of hooftrimmers give some cows a pedicure and later cleans a cow foot bath.

2006-08-23T00:00:00Z

2x15 Alpaca Shearer

2x15 Alpaca Shearer

  • 2006-08-23T00:00:00Z1h

Mike once again joins up with the guys of Taylor Shellfish Farms to help them harvest mussels. Next he goes to Hawaii to learn about harvesting taro. Finally, Mike joins a family of alpaca farmers and learns the hard way that alpacas can be pretty ill-willed animals when it comes to shearing them.

2006-08-30T00:00:00Z

2x16 Monkey Caretaker

2x16 Monkey Caretaker

  • 2006-08-30T00:00:00Z1h

Mike Rowe meets his match when he travels to South Africa to take care of monkeys that are being trained to go back into the wild

2006-11-29T01:00:00Z

2x17 Snake Researcher

2x17 Snake Researcher

  • 2006-11-29T01:00:00Z1h

Mike Rowe wrangles some water snakes, steps into the shoes of hard working bait and lobster fishermen in Maine, and opens the viewer mail bag which results in some seaweed trimming.

2006-12-06T01:00:00Z

2x18 Penguin Keeper

2x18 Penguin Keeper

  • 2006-12-06T01:00:00Z1h

Even though Mike has worked with concrete before in Dallas, he visits concrete workers in California today to learn the art of concrete stamping. Then he goes to New Orleans to care for penguins. Finally, he gets in the mud to hunt bloodworms in Maine.

2006-12-13T01:00:00Z

2x19 Bell Maker

2x19 Bell Maker

  • 2006-12-13T01:00:00Z1h

Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeve and gets dirty making giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry. Mike also gets down and dirty with the US Army Corps of Engineers as they conduct yearly maintenance on a hurricane barrier that was raised from the oceans floor.

Season Finale

2006-12-20T01:00:00Z

2x20 Mosquito Control Officer

Season Finale

2x20 Mosquito Control Officer

  • 2006-12-20T01:00:00Z1h

Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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